Fox has made a “put pilot” commitment to a TV series based on Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Since it’s a put pilot, Fox would have to pay a substantial penalty if they don’t air it. Michael Green (Heroes, Smallville) will write and exec produce, and he’ll also be in place as showrunner if League of Extraordinary Gentlemen goes to series.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is based on Moore’s graphic novels in which public domain literary characters like Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Mina Harker from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde join forces to fight crime. You may recall it was a terrible movie in 2003 which somehow grossed $179 million on a $78 million budget and made us wonder what Sean Connery was doing there. At least he wasn’t in a bear suit, which we will remind you is something that really exists.

I believe Connery was there because he’d passed on the role of Gandalf, regretted the shit out of that decision, and resolved to take the new fantasy-like thing they threw in his lap.

It’s a shame that movie sucked so much, because the comic (sorry, sorry, graphic novel) was pretty good. The movie sucked because they took away the dark undertones of the original, and we all know Fox won’t fuck it up that way too, right?

They should totally just take the exact same concept, run with it, not credit Alan Moore, and then when he sues just say “public domain! Besides, it’s not like you’ve made a career of adapting and/or reimaging characters from other authors into something in a new light, right?